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Meet Hy-Vee’s banana expert: Norm Davis
Tucked deep within Hy-Vee’s sprawling perishable distribution facility in Chariton, IA is a room where Norm Davis performs his magic. Here he receives truckloads of freshly harvested bananas that are bright green, rock-hard and inedible (“they taste like chalk and smell like a cucumber”) and shepherds them through a five-day ripening process, adjusting the temperature and administering [...]
Honoring the heroes around us
You see, there are heroes all around us, all the time. They walk by us on the sidewalk, and they sit next to us in class … In a world that can be cruel and selfish, it’s this knowledge — the knowledge that we are inclined to love one another, that we’re inclined to do good, [...]
Curtis Stone brings star power to Hy-Vee
Recipes and cooking tips from one of the hottest celebrity chefs in the business will soon be available exclusively at Hy-Vee. Curtis Stone — host of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, an investor/mentor on NBC’s America’s Next Great Restaurant and frequent guest chef on The Biggest Loser, Today and other shows — is developing a line [...]
Good enough to eat – more winning cakes
Some of the artistry on display at Hy-Vee’s Cake Designer Challenge this week at Jordan Creek Mall in West Des Moines:
There’s snow place like Hy-Vee …
The Great Blizzard of ’11 did a number on Hy-Vee land. From Kansas and Missouri up through Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, communities were socked with a foot or more of snow, sub-zero temperatures and wind gusts that literally blew vehicles off the roads. The Kansas City Star took this photo at Liberty Hy-Vee (northern [...]